Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Edward Shishkin
2006-08-06T22:19:23Z

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Edward Shishkin wrote:
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>>>
>>>How about we switch to ecc, which would help with bit rot not sector
>>>loss?
>>
>>
>>Interesting aspect.
>>
>>Yes, we can implement ECC as a special crypto transform that inflates
>>data. As I mentioned earlier, it is possible via translation of key
>>offsets with scale factor > 1.
>>
>>Of course, it is better then nothing, but anyway meta-data remains
>>ecc-unprotected, and, hence, robustness is not increased..
>>
>>Edward.
>
>
> Would you prefer to do it as a node layout plugin instead, so as to get
> the metadata?
>

Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
objected against such checks: currently only bitmap nodes have
a protection (checksum); supporting ecc-signatures is more
space/cpu expensive.

Edward.